Lt. Johnston, originally entered the service with the 6th Massachusetts (3 months), and then commissioned into the 30th Mass Volunteers, and later wounded at Cedar Creek.
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CDV – 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Brent Johnston, 30th Mass Infantry.
Thomas Brent Johnston was 25 private when he enlisted in the 6th Mass Infantry on May 27th, and did not muster with the regiment then serving in Maryland until the 19th of June. He mustered out with the regiment at Boston, in August of that year.
On April 29, 1862, he was commissioned as a 1st lieutenant into Co. B. of the 30th Mass Infantry, who would spend most of their service with the Department of the Gulf, before transferring to the Shenandoah Valley in the 19th Army Corps. Johnston was promoted to captain a month before the Battle of Cedar Creek, Va. where his was wounded, along with another 107 men of that regiment. The regiment mustered out at Charlestown, S.C. on July 5, 1866. He received a brevet promotion to major at war’s end.
There is no photographers back mark.
Very good condition. Trimmed as were most of the images that came from a Lowell, Mass album.
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| Weight | .5 lbs |
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